Photos of Chichibu

From August 12th

Hiking with Yoshiko on our fourteenth wedding anniversary.

We started under warm humid cloudy skies.

The stairway descending from the train station looked like an optical illusion.

We walked up through a small beautiful neighborhood. I clicked some photos.

Then we entered a dense green forest with a stream.

We went up a steep difficult hill, then it started to rain.

We were walking under a thick woods so the rain did not penetrate.

But then we were detoured and the course became very difficult.

We reached 840 meters. It was raining too hard to take photographs.

We continued down the mountain but we didn't see another course re-routing.

The downhill was so hard and took a very long time. We miserably ate our rice balls and tea under a tree with flies buzzing about. Nice anniversary bonding experience.

We finally made it back to a highway.

We used the highway to return to a useable part of the trail.

We returned to the station wet but relieved.